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Watching Most Haunted: Series 3, Ep. 1 East Kirkby Airfield
In this piece I am going to (after my rambling intro) look at one episode of Most Haunted: Series 3, episode 1, where the team visit East Kirkby airfield in Lincolnshire, a disused WW2 airbase now a museum. Continue reading
Bark at the Loon – Most Haunted and Halloween
Oh well – Most Haunted, still a great show I guess, nice people – but dark powers, penatgrams and all this beastliness? Knock it off! It’s not big and it’s not clever. It’s Wayne’s World meets the Exorcist. Continue reading
5,000 visits!
Just glanced at the hits counter on the blog and it has reached 5,000 visits to the blog. When I hit 2,000 we had a celebration of sorts – so I guess 5,000 needs marking as well! So a little celebratory wittering about my recent activities seems in order! Today was supposed to be busy with work, and a couple of hours out to go do a piece for an American ghost show. Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
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The Science of Ghosts – how it went, Part 5
On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere On the verge of indecision I’ll always take the roundabout way Marillion – Blind Curve There is something about that Marillion quote which captures the road outside Dreghorn Travelodge … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife, Derek Acorah, Dr Mervyn Heard, Edinburgh Fortean Society, Edinburgh Science Festival, ghost photos, Ghostwatch, Gordon Rutter, Ken Russell's Gothic, Medium, moral panic Ghostwatch, Most Haunted, phantasmagoria, Regency Phantasmagoria, Richard Wiseman's blog, Science of Ghosts, spirit photography, Stephen Volk, William Mumler
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The Science of Ghosts: how it went, part 3
OK, I may as well get on with the review I guess! Next up was The Haunted: A social history of ghosts by Professor Owen Davies. This moved form the science of ghosts to the history and cultural construction of … Continue reading
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Tagged ANTIX, Becky Smith, black monks, Chaffin Will Case, child ghosts, David Sivier, disabled ghosts, Family & Children's history, ground mist as ghost, Hamlet, Harry Martindale, infant mortality, Most Haunted, naked ghosts, Pauline Epistles, perfected body, Phil Whyman, pointing ghosts, Professor Owen Davies, Purgatory, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Roman ghosts, teaching of Romans as history in the uK, teleological ghosts, The Haunted: A social history of ghosts, Treasurer's House, York
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My Problem with the Paranormal!
OK, so tonight I’m going to talk about my problem with the paranormal. And here we have a problem straight away – what is the Paranormal? The term is used so loosely as to be almost meaningless. Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal
Tagged Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarkes Mysterious World, defining the paranormal, defining the perinormal, Fortean, Forteana, ghosthunter, Giant Squid, James Randi, JREF, Most Haunted, Paranormal, paranormal meaningless term?, Paranormal TV, parasychology, perinormal, psychical research, Richard Dawkins, woo
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The Haunted and the Haunters: the House and the Brain
When investigating a “haunting” there are two main schools of thought in the [[group]]. Continue reading
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Psychic News closes down after 78 years — but why?
I am aware of the byzantine politics of the Spiritualist movement, and the complex theological, administrative and personality clashes which sometimes (always?) arise. In this the Spiritualist National Union is much like any other church, or much like any other organisation, be it poetry club or gardening society.
In those two factors, economic issues and doubtless some political manoeuvring we see the immediate reasons for the decline of Psychic News (a newspaper that as long term reader of this blog may recall once featured me on the front page!). It is a shame, but possibly to be expected. And yet… Continue reading →